Campus & Community Greene Center helps students retain summer internships June 9, 2020 Despite the pandemic, the Greene Center helps connects students with opportunities to pursue life and career interests.
Campus & Community Finding a job during a recession? We’ve been there June 9, 2020 University of Rochester alumni who graduated during the Great Recession of 2008–09 offer tips for finding a job during a recession.
University News Dr. Chat Bot COVID-19 screenings expanding to non-Medical Center employees, students June 8, 2020 An online tool to screen for COVID-19 symptoms before employees report to work is being phased in University-wide in an effort to prevent new exposures to the illness from occurring on campus.
Voices & Opinion Time to combat coronavirus disinformation in ethnic communities June 5, 2020 In a New York Times op-ed, Adnan Hirad ’20M (MD/PhD) writes that the deliberate spreading of misleading information about COVID-19 “has metastasized among Somalis in the United States and abroad.”
Society & Culture Reopening the country will do little to restore the US economy May 14, 2020 Rochester economist Lisa Kahn says multiple factors—not just stay-at-home orders—combined to generate the recent collapse in the labor market.
Voices & Opinion COVID-19 demands a reckoning with hospitals’ fee-for-service business model May 11, 2020 A health care system that prioritizes volume over routine care is “structurally incapable” of responding to the challenges presented by COVID-19, writes Mical Raz in a Washington Post op-ed.
Health & Medicine Social distancing has stabilized, but failed to reverse, the spread of COVID-19 May 11, 2020 According to a new study by data scientists, social distancing measures like closing schools and restaurants sharply decreased the doubling rate of confirmed cases, but COVID-19 is still spreading.
University News Local dairy farmers to provide free milk on River Campus Monday, May 11 May 7, 2020 The drive-thru event is the result of a collaboration between the University, the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County, Dairy Farmers of America, and local farmers.
Campus & Community Students on campus find joy in the little things May 6, 2020 Not every student can go home. More than 700 Rochester undergraduates have been living on the River Campus, in single rooms, since the University closed residence halls for most of the undergraduate population, in late March.
University News Responding to coronavirus: Town hall with University leadership set for Thursday May 5, 2020 In a special live Zoom event, students, alumni, faculty, staff, friends, and families from around the world can join in to hear about the many ways the University has addressed the COVID-19 pandemic.